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Cambridgeshire (abbreviated
Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk
to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south,
and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. Cambridgeshire contains
most of the region known as Silicon Fen. The county town is Cambridge.
Cambridgeshire is twinned with Kreis Viersen in Germany.
Buckden in Cambridgeshire,
England is a village near Godmanchester, around 6 miles south of Huntingdon
and 50 miles north of London. The population is around 3000. The village has
a Church of England Primary School and a Day Nursery. Formerly on the Great
North Road (A1) out of London, Buckden is the location of Buckden Towers (or
Buckden Palace), one of the many former residences of the Bishop of Lincoln.
Huntingdon is a town in the county of Cambridgeshire in East Anglia,
England. The town lies on the north bank of the River Great Ouse, opposite
Godmanchester and adjacent to the market town of St Ives in the east and the
village of Brampton in the west. Huntingdon now incorporates the village of
Hartford to the east, and the developing areas of Oxmoor, Stukeley Meadows
and Hinchingbrooke to the north and west. Between Godmanchester, Huntingdon
and Brampton lies England's largest meadow, Portholme Meadow. Around 257
acres (1 km²) in size and contains many rare species of grass, flowers and
dragonfly. It is the only known habitat of the Marsh Dandelion in Britain.
The city of Cambridge is an
old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of
Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north-northeast of
London and is surrounded by a number of smaller towns and villages. It is
also at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen.
Cambridge is best known for the University of Cambridge, which includes the
renowned Cavendish Laboratory, King's College Chapel, and the Cambridge
University Library. The Cambridge skyline is dominated by the last two,
along with the chimney of Addenbrooke's Hospital in the far south of the
city and St John's College Chapel tower in the north.
Ely (pronunciation is a
cathedral city in the East Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire in the
east of England and 14 miles (23 km) north north-east of Cambridge. Ely
railway station, situated on the Fen Line, is a major train hub with direct
trains to Cambridge, London King's Cross, London Liverpool Street, Stansted
Airport, King's Lynn, Ipswich, March, Peterborough, Nottingham, Manchester,
Birmingham, Liverpool, Thetford and Norwich.
Huntingdon is a town in the
county of Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, England. The town lies on the north
bank of the River Great Ouse, opposite Godmanchester and adjacent to the
market town of St Ives in the east and the village of Brampton in the west.
Huntingdon now incorporates the village of Hartford to the east, and the
developing areas of Oxmoor, Stukeley Meadows and Hinchingbrooke to the north
and west.
Little Gransden is a village
in the district of South Cambridgeshire, in the county of Cambridgeshire in
England. It is home to 2 airfields: Little Gransden Airfield, located at
Fuller's Hill Farm, which holds an air and car show every summer
Gransden Lodge, located on the Cambridgeshire / Bedfordshire border, a
former Royal Air Force station which saw active service in the Second World
War, but is now a Gliding site, it's three former paved runways having been
removed.
March is a Fenland market
town in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England.
Since 1979 it has been the starting point of the March March march, in which
a group of Cambridge academics walk back to Cambridge from March during the
third month of the year.
Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of
England, with a projected population of 161,800 as of 2007.[4] For
ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. The Town Hall is
75 miles (121 km) north of London at Charing Cross. The city is situated on
the River Nene, which flows into the North Sea approximately 30 miles (48
km) to the north-east. The local topography is notoriously flat and
low-lying, and in some places lies below sea level. The area known as the
Fens falls to the east of Peterborough. The City of Peterborough includes
the outlying settlement at RAF Wittering, and as a unitary authority borders
Northamptonshire and Rutland to the west, Lincolnshire to the north, and
Cambridgeshire to the south and east. |